#1443 · 🐦 birds

Mountain Chickadee

🇳🇱 Bergmees ·Poecile gambeli

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

what is it?

The mountain chickadee ( Poecile gambeli ) is a small songbird, a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. Often, it is still placed in the genus Parus with most other tits, but mtDNA cytochrome b sequence data and morphology suggest that separating Poecile more adequately expresses these birds' relationships. The American Ornithologists' Union has been treating Poecile as a distinct genus for some time.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 19,871iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
19,871 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Robert Ridgway in 1886 (140 years ago).